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Ice Age Field Reversal, Abrupt Climate Change, and Supervolcanoes!

In a recent report in Earth and Planetary Science Letters, researchers from the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences found that around 41,000 years ago there was an abrupt and complete reversal of the Earth's dipole field which lasted only 440 years. During this period, the Earth's magnetic field was significantly weaker, with only 5% of the current field intensity, which would significantly reduce the protection provided the surface from radiation exposure.

Their study of Black Sea sediment cores also revealed evidence of multiple abrupt climatic changes, as well as the eruption of a supervolcano in the Phlegraean Fields area near Naples, Italy 39,400 years ago.

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